Using a Debian 8 host, I'm interested in setting up a Windows VM guest which get's direct access to my dedicated/discrete graphics card, to see what sort of performance I can get out of it for games ...

I created a qemu ubuntu vm. Now I use overlay images as a quick way of creating vm's "on the fly".
But what is the size limit for an overlay image? Is it the size of the "base" image? Or can it grow ...

I have to make a configuration file available to guest OS running on top of KVM hyper-visor.
I have already read about folder sharing options between host and guest in KVM with 'qemu' and 9P virtio ...

I have a Windows machine inside a kvm machine on a Linux system. I would like to mount /home/myuser/Documents into 'c:\Users\myuser\My Document'.
How can I make the D: drive be an alias for the ext3 ...

I have updated my KVM management script for Ubuntu 14.04 KVM hosts to support debian 8 guests. After a manual installation (preseed script does not work yet), I am stuck with the the following message ...

I have taken a snapshot recently to assist me build VMs quickly with the operating system I desire (through virsh), however, every time I build a VM, I would like to modify few files inside the img ...

OS Windows run on VM (ubuntu, libvirt, qemu-kvm). And I have PS/2 keyboard on host hardware. Is there any way to pass it to guest OS without lost of performance (maybe emulate USB keyboard with keys ...

I want to do virtualization on the Edison. (Edison has vt-x.)
On Yocto linux there isn't anything in the repo that is useful.
On Ubilinux there is KVM but there is no kernel module in aptitude package ...

New to virtualization and kvm and I have a problem when i try to create a virtual machine with spice:
virt-install --name Windows-7-x64 --ram 2048 --disk path=~/kvm/images/win7.img,size=50 --vcpus=1 ...

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I have started a kvm session with typical qxl and spice options. The vm is running in the background via nohup.
I then started the spice client on the same host, using it to log in to the vm's gnome ...

KVM/qemu support various types of cache - none, writethrough, writeback.
How to check which one is default and is used on system when no cache= is specified?
For RHEL6 i found that it's writethrough ...

I currently have a RedHat 6.5 kvm running under a RedHat 6.5 host. I am attempting to make a connection to a Rational Apex licence server on the local network, however the connection times out before ...

I installed KVM on centos 6 dedicated server but the Download/Upload speed was very slow.
The operating system on KVM is Windows XP.
Download/Upload speed on Centos 6 is faster 10 times than on KVM.
I ...

I would like to boot and run Windows 8 with kvm or xen while I'm running Debian Wheezy. Actually I have installed Windows 8 on the external USB disk and Debian Wheezy on the hard disk sata. I'm tryng ...

I want to replace Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V on my homeserver with CentOS and KVM. My plan is to virtualize one Windows 8.1 machine and several smaller Linux machines like on Hyper-V, there is ...

I'm currently using 5 public IPV4 addresses on a physical machine running Ubuntu Server, which I intend to replace with new hardware running Proxmox.
I'll do a P2V of the current Ubuntu install into ...

I am trying to share files between Linux host and Windows guest and I came across the link:
Use virt-manager to share files between Linux host and Windows guest?
As suggested in the third answer, I ...

I run another Linux instance inside KVM on my laptop.
When I suspend-to-ram the laptop and wake it up again, the guest Linux starts consuming 100% CPU for some time (maybe proportional to the sleep ...

I am running a KVM server (Ubuntu 14.04) and would like to take snapshots of my guests. I was reading how about how to do that in this article. It seemed as if I should be able to take a snapshot of a ...